[Alt-photo] A DEFINITIVE ANSWER?

[BOB KISS]

DEAR LIST,

            Can I or can I not bleach (even slightly) a print made mostly of
palladium?  I have a print made of 95% palladium and it is a bit dark.  

1)  Most books on pt/pd printing warn against using HCl as the first
clearing bath with palladium prints because it can bleach them.         

2)  Don Bryant posted Michael Mutmansky’s procedure for bleaching out black
spots on pt/pd prints by first placing some dilute HCl on the spot and then
some dilute chlorine bleach on the same spot.  Might this work on a macro
scale by first immersing a print in the dilute HCl then into the dilute
bleach?  

3)  But, on the other hand, some people say that it is impossible to bleach
up a dark palladium print.  

            Am I the only one who finds this contradictory?  

            Soooooooooooooooooooooo, has anyone had success slightly
bleaching up a dark palladium print?  Or does this sound feasible?

Of course I am making another lighter print but is there any way not to
waste the dark one?

 
CHEERS!

 
BOB

 

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